Title:

Creator/Contributor:

Creator/Contributor:

National Federation of Telephone Workers, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

United Brotherhood of Telegraph Workers, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

United Union of Telephone Workers, creator.

Abstract:

Includes correspondence, communications, and other materials relating to Locals 101, 120, and 109 of the American Communications
Association. In addition, the collection includes materials, mainly newspapers, produced by other telephone worker unions,
as well as files relating to the ACA-CIO work with the National Labor Relations Board and some files relating to the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Company. Other than the official organ of the ACA-CIO, union newspapers represented in the collection
include the publications of The United Brotherhood of Telegraph Workers, the National Federation of Telephone Workers, and
the United Union of Telephone Workers.

The American Communications Association was a CIO-affliated union for telephone and telegraph workers founded in 1937 but
active mainly in the 1940s. Its predecessor organization was the American Radio Telegraphists Association. In 1950, the ACA
was expelled from the CIO charges of affiliation with the communist movement. The ACA merged with the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters in 1966.